SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan minister killed in blast

ZHANG: And Sri Lanka's agriculture minister survived a suicide attack on Thursday. It's the second such attack on a prominent person this week in the country. STORY: A suicide bomber attacked a...

A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber kills Sri Lanka's highways minister and at least 11 others who were gathering for a marathon race near the capital on Sunday. The attack comes amidst an...

Another Sri Lankan government minister has been killed by a roadside bomb. MOREINFO: Nation Building Minister D.M. Dassanayake was travelling in a car when the bomb went off in the town of Ja-Ela,...

ANCHOR: A Highways Minister is the second minister assassinated in Sri Lanka this year. In January the minister for nation building was killed in a roadside blast in the same district as...

08 Jan 2008 - "Sri Lankan Minister of Nation Building D. M. Dassanayaka, killed in a Claymore blast near Ja-Ela junction, 18 km northeast of Colombo city, Tuesday around 10:35 a.m., succumbed to...

At least 12 people are killed and 22 injured in a suspected Tamil Tiger rebel suicide blast in northern Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan military said on Monday (June 16) that 12 people were killed in a...

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11/02/07 BBC Mr Thamilselvan was the public face of the rebels A senior leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels has been killed in a government air raid, the rebels say. SP Thamilselvan was the...

Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic Minister of Highways & Road Development, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, was killed in a suicide bomb blast by a LTTE terrorist at the public playground in Weliweraya, located in...

Dambulla, Sri Lanka, Feb 2, 2008 : At least 20 people were killed and around 50 wounded when a bomb blast hit a civilian bus in the central Sri Lankan town of Dambulla on February 2. The town is...